Stephanie Gardiner
TEENAGER Luke O'Neill was happy, active and ''always smiling'', but his fun way to earn pocket money turned tragic when he was swept into a drain while collecting golf balls on the mid-north coast.

Stephanie Gardiner
Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy is three times the size of Cyclone Yasi, which devastated Queensland last year, and more than 15 times the size of Cyclone Tracy, which hit Darwin at Christmas 1974.

Stephanie Gardiner
Australian expats and tourists have described the anxious energy in New York as they brace for Hurricane Sandy, with many braving long, tense supermarket queues and preparing to be holed up indoors...

Stephanie Gardiner, Ben Cubby, Peter Munro
THE zookeeper critically injured by a Taronga Zoo elephant is known for her unusually intense relationship with the animals and had told colleagues she could talk with them telepathically.